Faculty Highlights
- The NIH recently awarded Dr. Joseph Falke with a 5-year MIRA / R35 grant to continue their research on a membrane-based signaling circuit central to leukocyte chemotaxis and many human cancers. The grant ($2.0M total costs) begins January 1,
- The Falke lab's recent publication "Single Molecule Studies Reveal Regulatory Interactions between Master Kinases PDK1, AKT1 and PKC" was selected by the Biophysical Journal editors as "New and Notable".
- BioFrontiers faculty continue to be influential in their fields. Clarivate Analytics identified Roy Parker and Jason Burdick in the top 1% of highly cited researchers in their field for 2021. Highly Cited Researchersâ„¢ have
- Roy Parker of Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute, alongside Rebecca Maloy of the College of Music, have been selected to receive 2021-2022 Distinguished Research Lectureships.
- Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger win Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment
- Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a
- For nearly one year, a group of scientists and volunteers from across the university has met seven days a week, often sleeping just a few hours a night, to bring students back to campus safely.
- Researchers at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ have won a $1.2 million award to establish a Center for Light Sheet Microscopy and Data Science, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced.
- Some of the most commonly used drugs for treating hereditary breast and ovarian cancers may not work the way we thought they did, according to new CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ research.
- Sabrina L. Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research